“What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree…”
Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
“These in the robings of glory,
Those in the gloom of defeat,
All with the battle-blood gory,
In the dusk of eternity meet;—
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;—
Under the laurel the Blue,
Under the willow, the Gray.”
The Blue and the Gray, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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